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TechStuff Classic: The Story of the Sony Walkman
This week, we’re revisiting one of our favorite episodes — all about the Sony Walkman. Jonathan Strickland dives into why Time named the portable dev…
1 year, 2 months ago
The Story: Selfhood in the Digital Age w/ Vauhini Vara
Writer and journalist Vauhini Vara has been entangled with the tech world for most of her life — first as a kid in the Seattle suburbs and a college …
1 year, 2 months ago
Week in Tech: The Music Industry Strikes Back
How can you detect AI music? This week in the News Roundup, Oz and Karah unpack the music industry's scramble to build tech that labels AI-generated …
1 year, 2 months ago
The Story: Big Tech, Small Town w/ Yasmin Green
When Yasmin Green joined Google almost two decades ago, she knew she wanted to focus on the complex problems facing humanity in a technological world…
1 year, 2 months ago
Week in Tech: There's No Place Like AI
What does Google Search sound like? This week in the News Roundup, Oz explores Google’s new AI-generated audio summaries — and why a simple question …
1 year, 3 months ago
TechSupport: The Two Sides of Biometric Data w/ Adam Clark Estes
Adam Clark Estes is a senior technology correspondent at Vox and the author of the User Friendly newsletter. Estes sits down with Oz to discuss Amazo…
1 year, 3 months ago
Week in Tech: AI’s Problem Solving Problem
What’s inside AI’s black box? This week in the News Roundup, Oz unpacks the uncomfortable truth that even the people building today’s AI models often…
1 year, 3 months ago
The Story: Are the US and China in a Tech War? w/ Jake Sullivan
When the Biden administration announced the CHIPS and Science Act back in 2022, it was seen as a pivotal move to boost the US semiconductor industry …
1 year, 3 months ago
Week in Tech: Nintendo Thinks Sideways
Did search just get worse? This week in the News Roundup, Oz and Karah discuss how AI is reshaping search engines — for better or worse — and uncover…
1 year, 3 months ago
The Story: From Woolly Mice to De-Extinction w/ Ben Lamm
Ben Lamm is an entrepreneur and the founder and CEO of Colossal Biosciences. That's the genetic engineering company making headlines for its bold mis…
1 year, 3 months ago